The Consortium

The ESRF, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, is the world’s most intense X-ray source and a centre of excellence for fundamental and innovation-driven research in condensed and living matter science.

ALBA Synchrotron is a large research infrastructure near Barcelona, with thirteen state-of-the-art beamlines serving more than 2.400 academic and industrial researchers worldwide per year, to excel in science and innovation for the benefit of society.

The Cyprus Institute (CyI) is a world-class, non-profit research and educational institution with a strong scientific and technological orientation.

Desy is an international and interdisciplinary working environment with more than 3000 DESYans working in a variety of occupational fields - including science, IT, economics and engineering, administration and technology.

Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is a multidisciplinary research center of excellence, open to the international research community, specializing in generating high quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying it in materials and life sciences.

The National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) is the Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the laws that govern them, under the supervision of the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR).

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a third-generation synchrotron light source in Allan (Jordan).

SOLEIL is the French synchrotron facility, located on the Saclay Plateau near Paris. Its shareholders are CNRS and CEA.

With 2,300 employees and an annual budget of CHF 460 million, e PSI is the largest research institute for natural sciences and engineering in Switzerland.